Injuries You Have Suffered

[MoMa]

Not me, but when I worked for a distributor, at least once a week someone got "stung" by scorpion fish.
happily, it was never me, but from what I understand, it's awfully painful.

(there were also stingings from regular ol' land scorpions and thousands of snake bites).

 

[2polypterus]

I worked at my lfs for a while so have suffered countless injuries including electric shock from busted heaters, cuts, stabs from catfish spines, etc... The worst by far though was being bitten by a huge red devil! I was just trying to siphon his tank and he snuck up on me... took a chunk out of my hand!! After that I always cleaned his tank with a rock in my other hand and had to bash him in the face whenever he came near... That didn't stop him from trying though.

 

[Fishy412]

i got stabbed by a raphael. i was moving a log and apparently he was under it and he flared his fins right into my hand. it wasnt that painful but it was surprising

 

[DiscusKeeper403]

when i started my 25gal tank i wentto put a background on it when it was on the shelf. i got up on the shelf and sat on it and leaned back to put on the bkacground and as i did that the whole shelf broke so i got off quick and with super human strength and alittle adreniline a lifted the tank full off water to another self. i got acouple glass slivers in my hand and had to hit the shelf back up into the rite position which sprained my wrist.

 

[sjcneedshelp321]

The pain of having to choose between an Xbox 360 or a fish tank, i chose the latter.

 

[Cheffi]

A sore bottom from sitting on my computer watching my fish tank. Ouch

 

[willtang3000]

my very hungry pike cichlid taking a gash at my arm causin it to bleed in the tank so had to clean it again after i just did one lol and when i went to pick something up from under my tank and hitting my head on the way up extremely stupid but hey

 

[PlecMama]

my ghost shrimps will hand feed, and it feels really cool when they walk on the my finger underwater

That's very cool. I love to feel the fish touching on my hand in the water, it's a sort of priviledge that they consider you safe enough to touch. I love hand feeding my plecs, the big two.

Fish injuries. Well, big plecs spike, it's what they do, but I've not had any major spiking incidents from them. I rememebr the first time I carried Nessie home in a bag from the lfs, I knew nothing about them and the lady (girl) there knew nothing about them either. By the time we got home she had popped her bag in many places and I was walking at 15 mph to get there before she ran out of water!

 

[i_ganjaman]

Cant recall any injuries But your all putting me off fishkeeping.......LOL

 

[csr mel]

someone i know died as a result of some sort of disease she cought from the fishtank. i dont remember what it was but they said its pretty common in tanks, and people with low quality immune systems are suspect to it.

 

[Rocky32189]

I've had my arm attacked by my Silver Aro a bunch of times while doing tank maintenance, lol.

 

[- Jez -]

My eyes have gone a bit blurry from all the hours I've spent sat with my face right up to the tank staring in!

 

[puppyduck]

My boyfriend dropped the tank lid on my head today. Not really an injury though.

And we both work in a deli and get a lot of burns so putting your hand/arm in the tank to sort out the valve in the bubble curtain really hurts.

 

[my fat fish]

i had a few and i only started my best 1 tho happened today i was in my bedroom looking ta my plecs as i love them guys more them my gf! dont tell her i sed thta she will kil me ne ways as i was staring and walking to my tv i walked dead into the wall with my head hitting it first about knocking me out and all my gf did was laugh... it was painfull

also anouther tiem about a week ago i was getting ready for bed just turned the light off and just as i went to jump into bed my tank light went off as its on an auto tier for 10 hours a day so i dnt have 2 mess around wiht it ne wyas it went off just as i jumped into bed and cos it had just gone off everythink was pitc black cos my eyes hadent ajusted and i dived head first into my wall once again! so now i altere my light timer

anouther fish story with em is when i was at the sea side and ws stung in the foot by a cray fish and had 3 big holes in my foot still got the scars today that wasent plesent

fish rule tho its worth it!!!

 

[RandomWiktor]

Cleaning the filter in my goldfish tank is deadly! I badly lascerated my hand numerous times cleaning that sucker - even skinned my entire thumb scrubbing the intake. Blech - nothing like watching you skin float away in a bucket of dirty fish water because you're trying to keep the beneficial bacteria alive.
I seldom walk away from tank cleaning without a few cuts and bruises. Recently, while scrubbing the glass on the hood of my 75g, I ran my palm along the edge thinking the paper towel was covering it... it wasn't. Slit my whole darned palm open, blood EVERYWHERE; they should really sand that glass so the edges aren't so deadly!
I've gotten more than a few wounds from the betta tanks even since they're 100% cleanings. The 5g hex tank has a vendetta against me I swear; it is amazingly hard to grip properly because the extra sides throw it off balance no matter how you hold it. I slipped once on spilled water carrying it to the tub to dump it, and litterally just crashed onto my back and let it fall on me so it wouldn't shatter - many, many bruises from that one!